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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
This! I find the fixation on the mythical superiority of cursive both ableist and incredibly script-specific, and of course a reflection of nostalgia for the good old days. I learned cursive in elementary school but even then never used it, it was simply too difficult.
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I don't know that was the intention.
People working in "Drawing offices" or Engineering before PCs learned to do print style text quickly and neatly. Only some stuff used stencils. Cursive aka Script would have been forbidden. Cursive was invented maybe 1000 years later than the "CAPITAL" letters to suit fast copying with a quill.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
I read a tweet thread from someone expounding reams of "scientific" evidence about what is lost when kids don't learn cursive, and responded simply by pointing out that there are many, many writing systems in the world that have no cursive.
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Complete rubbish. Most Alphabet and related systems don't have lower case which is derived from cursive. Most have only one set of letters.
AFIAK no non-Alphabetic (or related system) has lower case or differentiated cursive and printed.
Cursive is only to enable writing faster with a quill (ink) pen. If it doesn't work for you then don't use it. Unless someone is unusual their "printed style" text is easier to read.
Some writing systems with alphabets simply use "
SMALL CAPS" and don't even have a lower case style.